US News: "CATASTROPHIC IMPACTS," "GENERATIONAL FREEZE," "NATIONAL EMERGENCY declared in 20 states." US Temp: -12°C (10°F). Canadian News: "Trump tweets about tariffs," "Manitoba ski trails closed," "Trees might explode from cold." Canadian Temp: -48°C (Windchill in Prairies/N. Ontario).

I find this funny: As of January 22, 2026, three downtown Las Vegas casinos have launched an "At Par" program accepting the Canadian dollar at a 1:1 ratio with the US dollar to combat a recent 20% decline in Canadian tourism.

For everyone who wants to argue that Carney doesn’t know what he’s doing… here’s his resume: 1) Harvard undergrad 2) Oxford masters and PHD 3)13 years at Goldman Sachs 4) Helped South Africa return to the international bond market 5) Worked on the 1998 Russian financial crisis

Regardless of your political beliefs, every Canadian should be proud of Mark Carneys speech in Davos today.

Just a little reminder… 🇨🇦 Canada ranks: 🥇 1st in uranium 🥇 1st in potash 🥈 2nd in nickel 🥉 3rd in oil 🏅 5th in gold 💧 1st in freshwater

Canadian news alert: following Carneys trip to China, it’s reported that China has already imported 60,000 tonnes of Canadian canola. Seems like the trip was successful thus far. Exclusive: Chinese importer buys Canadian canola, denting Australian export hopes - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Are you a Canadian with a business? I’m looking to feature Canadian products and businesses. I will only ever share products that I’ve actually tested and recommend. If interested please just reach out!

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: In the early 1950s, Canadian engineer John Hopps helped develop early external pacemaker technology which was a key step toward modern cardiac pacing. Engineering that literally keeps time. 🇨🇦❤️

BREAKING: PM Carney Secures "Strategic Investment" from Qatar. Fresh off his China trip, PM Carney has landed in Doha to seal a major capital deal. Qatar has committed to "significant" investment in Canadian AI, energy, and defense projects.

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: Canadarm put Canadian engineering into orbit, a space robotics system that became a defining tool of the Space Shuttle era starting in 1981. Canada’s flag… as hardware. 🇨🇦🚀

China update: 🇨🇳 China cuts tariffs on Canadian rapeseed to 15% and suspends duties on canola, lobster and other products. 🇨🇦 Canada to import 49,000 Chinese EVs at a 6% tariff. Changes effective March 1.

Real question: Is US media brainwashing their people? Some things I read and hear is just mind blowing, in the sense that anyone with logic can and should be able to see right through it.

My dad the smartest people I know. Undergrad in engineering. MBA. CFA. Spent 30 years at the same Fortune 500 company but was always in corporate. As an engineer at heart, he loves to build. Recently he retired and decided it’s time to go to trades school. Just a reminder it’s never too late!

Lately it seems like every day I turn on the news or even just scroll through social media, I’m reminded why I’m lucky to be Canadian. Praying for those in many of the other countries 🙏🇨🇦❤️

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: Hockey Night in Canada was experimenting with replay-style broadcast techniques back in the 1950s, long before replay became standard. Canada helped build modern sports TV. 🇨🇦📺

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: In 1959, Jacques Plante helped normalize the goalie mask at the NHL level, a safety move that permanently changed hockey. Could you image staring down McDavid with no helmet on. Sometimes the innovation is just… refusing to go back. 🇨🇦🏒

Claiming Mr.wonderful as Canadian is similar to calling Ted Cruz Canadian it feels 😅🇨🇦 While technically true, I don’t think very many Canadians consider either.

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: In 1879, Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming proposed global time zones, the idea that helped standardize “time” worldwide. Railways needed it. The world adopted it. 🇨🇦🕰️

DID YOU KNOW: In 2018 a Canadian bank bought an AI lab. Very interesting as TD acquired Layer 6 AI (Toronto).

Exactly 104 years ago on January 11, 1922 doctors injected the first dose of insulin to a 13 year old boy in Toronto who was dying from diabetes. This first dose failed. 12 days later the doctors decided to try again. Amazingly, this time seemed to work! Diabetes was no longer a death sentence.🇨🇦

PM Mark Carney heads to China Jan 13 to 17 in a bid to diversify Canada’s trade ties beyond the U.S. The backdrop: canola duties after Canada’s tariff on Chinese EVs. I’ll be keeping an eye on this pretty closely especially with the recent Venezuela news

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: In the late 1930s, Canadian inventor Donald Hings developed the “Packset,” an early portable two-way radio often cited as a walkie-talkie precursor. Backpack comms before it was normal. 🇨🇦📻

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: IMAX’s giant-screen tech took off from Canada, with early films at Expo ’70 and the first permanent IMAX theatre opening in Toronto (Cinesphere) in 1971. Canada built the big screen. 🇨🇦🎬

Canadian history lesson: One of the foundational quantum cryptography protocols (BB84) dates to 1984. Canada’s Gilles Brassard is a co-creator. Canada’s fingerprints are on the foundations. 🇨🇦

Canada says it’s investing $244.2M into NRC IRAP (starting 2025–26) to launch Defence Industry Assist for Canadian SMEs. Essentially this means: Funding + advice for high-potential, innovative SMEs building defence and dual-use tech. Happy to see emphasis on defence and innovation.

I love this: Canada has added MORE jobs in the last four months than the US And it is not even close. 🇺🇸 Jobs added September from December: +38,000 🇨🇦 Jobs added September from December: +188,800 Even the private vs public sector breakdown still points towards Canada

Today I sit at 53 followers. I’m a young Canadian with a goal of spreading awareness regarding the positive sides to Canada! The amazing people, history, culture etc that has built this nation. Follow along if that’s something you support as it helps tremendously! 🇨🇦❤️

Canada had the best-performing stock market of 2025 which returned 36.5% 😎❤️🇨🇦

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: Insulin was discovered in 1921 at the University of Toronto. Banting, Best, Macleod, and Collip helped turn diabetes from a death sentence into a treatable condition. 🇨🇦🧪

If yesterday taught me anything, it’s that the political divide is increasingly prevalent. The lady had a child. There needs to be empathy regardless of political differences

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: Bombardier’s Ski-Doo (1959) helped turn the snowmobile into a mass-market machine. Quebec basically industrialized winter mobility. 🇨🇦❄️ (It was also a typo that essentially caused the naming)

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: In 1884, Canadian Marcellus Gilmore Edson patented a “peanut paste” often cited as an early peanut-butter precursor. Not the whole story, but a real milestone. 🇨🇦🥜

Little Canadian Technology Fact: In 2017 a Montreal startup called "Element AI". raised a major early round which played a huge role in signalling Canada's AI momentum and talent.

I strongly believe TVs will become obsolete and instead everyone will have projectors.

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: The early telephone story runs through Brantford, Ontario , “Telephone City.” Bell worked from the Bell Homestead area, and a Bell Telephone company operated in Brantford by 1877. 🇨🇦☎️

Canadian technology fact of the day: In 2013 Google acquired Toronto’s DNNresearch (reported ~$44M). Hinton + his students, fresh off the AlexNet moment. It signaled: Canadian AI labs were now global recruiting targets. 🇨🇦💰 P.S. RECOMMEND CANADIAN FOCUSED FACT SERIES 🙏

CANADIAN FACT OF THE DAY: Basketball was invented in Dec 1891 by James Naismith, a Canadian-born teacher from Almonte, Ontario. First game was in Massachusetts, but the inventor was 🇨🇦.

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It’s crazy how I literally have so many ideas of things I wanna build, but it’s to the point where I can’t focus on one. Might just be the ADHD but damn

Canadian Fact Of The Day: 1833, Nova Scotia mariner John Patch successfully tested an early version of the marine screw propeller in Yarmouth Harbour. He’s often credited as an early pioneer of the idea, even though similar screw-propeller designs were being developed elsewhere around the same time.

Ok we need the winter class to be: Leafs vs Habs in the Rogers Center with the roof off!

On This Day In Canada: A landmark moment for national identity took place as Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King became the first person to receive a Canadian citizenship certificate. Before the Canadian Citizenship Act took effect, Canadians were legally considered British subjects.

Canadian fact of the day: 2018 Turing Award: deep learning pioneers recognized. Geoffrey Hinton (Toronto) + Yoshua Bengio (Montreal) are central to the story. Canada helped build modern AI’s foundations. 🧠🇨🇦

The startup Clicks is releasing essentially its own take on the OG blackberry (yes the keyboard and all) and I’m really not sure how I feel about it 🥲🫣

Canadian Fact Of The Day 🇨🇦 Alouette-1 launched Sept 29, 1962. It was the first satellite fully designed + built by a country other than the US or USSR…and it kept transmitting ionosphere data for over 10 years.

Canadian Fact of the day: CAE is founded in Montreal (1947). Then builds a global position in flight simulation for airlines and air forces. A Canadian company quietly training the world’s pilots. ✈️🇨🇦

Going into 2026, nothing changes, my goal remains the same: Let’s highlight the best of Canada! Let’s grow Canada! Let’s love Canada! I love this country 🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️❤️❤️

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Canadian Fact of the day: On Feb 20, 1959: Canada cancels the Avro Arrow. A cutting-edge interceptor program literally ended overnight. It’s still the country’s biggest tech “what if.” 💔🇨🇦

I wrote an article on my perspective of why talent, founders and startups feel pulled towards the US. Definitely recommend checking it out (: open.substack.com/pub/nollieca...